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Roy Moore

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Roy Moore

If You Want to See the Future of Political Trolling—and Elections—Look to Alabama

A second covert campaign against Judge Roy Moore is revealed, suggesting that voters need to up their media-literacy game, and fast.

Nick Gillespie | 1.7.2019 10:50 AM

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Roy Moore

Roy Moore's Claim of 'Systematic Voter Fraud' Is at Least As Plausible As Trump's

The defeated Senate candidate's refusal to concede is no more preposterous than the claim that the president actually won the popular vote.

Jacob Sullum | 12.28.2017 1:20 PM

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Millennials

Why Greg Gutfeld Is a Better Standard-Bearer for Conservatives than Roy Moore: Podcast

Novelist Lisa De Pasquale sees "politics as entertainment" and worries that Millennials are lost forever to the left.

Nick Gillespie | 12.28.2017 1:00 PM

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Roy Moore

Roy Moore's Trumpian Conspiracy Theorizing About Voter Fraud

The president wants the Alabama loser to concede. But using Trump's own (fake) voter-fraud math, he shouldn't.

Matt Welch | 12.15.2017 1:35 PM

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Roy Moore

How Roy Moore Failed to Reassure Voters He Is Not a Sexual Predator

A hazy memory, self-contradiction, and dubious debunking efforts helped seal the GOP Senate candidate's fate.

Jacob Sullum | 12.13.2017 12:30 PM

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Roy Moore

What Roy Moore's Near-Miss Tells us About America's Great Media Divide

As partisan skepticism degenerates into media illiteracy, in-house media criticism devolves into pompous wagon-circling.

Matt Welch | 12.13.2017 11:01 AM

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Roy Moore

Doug Jones Didn't Win Last Night. Roy Moore and Social Conservatives Lost. In Deep-Red Alabama.

Are you listening Republicans? Even in your most-secure strongholds, the culture wars are over and you lost.

Nick Gillespie | 12.13.2017 9:45 AM

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Roy Moore

Doug Jones Wins Alabama Senate Seat; Roy Moore Does Not Concede

Final tally: 49.9 to 48.4 percent.

Scott Shackford | 12.12.2017 8:00 PM

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Roy Moore

Dear Alabama: You Don't Have To Choose Between Roy Moore and Doug Jones

The Libertarian Party's write-in longshot, Ron Bishop, is also in the race. Bonus: a baker's dozen non-pedo reasons to dislike Roy Moore.

Nick Gillespie | 12.11.2017 9:00 PM

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Reasontv

13 Non-Pedophile Reasons Why You Can Hate Roy Moore

Just when you thought you couldn't like Moore any less.

Andrew Heaton and Sarah Siskind | 12.8.2017 5:00 PM

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Roy Moore

Abortion Is the Get-out-of-Jail-Free Card of Republican Politics

Conservative apologia for Roy Moore and hostility toward his opponent are anchored on an issue individual senators are highly unlikely to impact.

Matt Welch | 12.8.2017 3:17 PM

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The Harder It Is to Believe Roy Moore, the Cozier He Gets With the GOP

Trump's endorsement and the RNC's renewed support coincide with a crescendo of self-contradiction.

Jacob Sullum | 12.6.2017 9:15 AM

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Roy Moore

Roy Moore Sees Restoration of Voting Rights of Felons as a Plot Against Him

A law signed by Alabama's Republican governor allows many ex-cons to return to the ballot box.

Scott Shackford | 12.1.2017 3:15 PM

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Roy Moore

Trump Tacitly Endorses Roy Moore, Noting His Denials 12 Times

The president says he may campaign for the Republican Senate candidate, notwithstanding credible allegations of sexual assault.

Jacob Sullum | 11.22.2017 9:15 AM

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Taxes

What Charles Manson Teaches Us About Harvey Weinstein, Al Franken, and Tax Reform: Podcast

Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman and Matt Welch discuss what's wrong with the GOP tax bill, Roy Moore, Al Franken, and Aquaman.

Jim Epstein and Ian Keyser | 11.20.2017 3:15 PM

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Roy Moore

Roy Moore's Defenses Contradict Each Other

The Republican Senate candidate tries to discredit an accuser he said he didn't know by noting that he presided over her divorce case.

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2017 11:15 AM

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Roy Moore

Roy Moore Could Be Digging His Own Grave By Denying Any Contact With His Accusers

If the he is lying about courthouse chats and restaurant meals, he is probably lying about his alleged crimes too.

Jacob Sullum | 11.15.2017 1:15 PM

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Roy Moore and the End of Republican Credibility

Can the conservative movement survive the election of a possible child molester?

Nick Gillespie | 11.13.2017 9:56 PM

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Roy Moore

Roy Moore Concedes Fondling a 14-Year-Old Would Disqualify a Senate Candidate

That is farther than some of his defenders are willing to go.

Jacob Sullum | 11.12.2017 3:45 PM

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Roy Moore

Under Alabama Law, Roy Moore's Alleged Encounter With a Teenager Is a Serious Crime With Lifelong Consequences

The Republican Senate candidate would still be paying for his actions four decades later.

Jacob Sullum | 11.10.2017 3:30 PM

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The Alabama GOP's Awful Responses to the Roy Moore Sexual Assault Allegations Are Dead-End Partisanship At Its Worst

Jeff Flake wonders: Is this what the Republican Party has become?

Peter Suderman | 11.10.2017 1:54 PM

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Roy Moore Read Me Love Poetry

A detail in the allegations against the Alabama Senate candidate rings true. He read me the poems he used to woo his much-younger wife.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 11.9.2017 4:40 PM

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Rand Paul

Rand Paul Endorses Roy Moore in Alabama Senate Race, Annoys Libertarians

If ever there were a would-be colleague who someone of even slight libertarian tendencies should be leery of, it is Roy Moore.

Brian Doherty | 10.17.2017 7:40 PM

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Roy Moore Should Get a Female Muslim Uber to Drive Him to Saudi Arabia

His version of Christianity is the spiritual twin of Sharia

Shikha Dalmia | 9.29.2017 12:20 PM

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